FERTILIZERS AND PLANT REMEDIES 



ond crop. But there is really nothing better 

 than cow manure for the phlox, and, also, if 

 used in limited quantities, for hollyhocks. 



It is not generally known that the Richardia 

 alba, or white calla lily, which is a native of 

 Egypt and flourishes in the rich alluvial soil 

 on the banks of the Nile, also growing suc- 

 cessfully in California in irrigated fields, can 

 be grown with excellent effect in one's garden, 

 if started by March 1st in the hotbeds in very 

 rich soil and given a daily soaking. 



The plants may be set out when the ground 

 is warm, in May, but the earth of the bed 

 where they are to grow should be made rich 

 with cow manure. The beds must always be 

 well watered once a day, and in dry weather, 

 twice. About half a trowelful of bone meal 

 dug about each plant when first set out will 

 greatly assist them. 



Last summer, I planted sixty calla lilies in 

 a large bed, set white snapdragons between 

 them, and edged the bed with giant white 

 fringed petunias. The effect was all that 



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